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<br />4 HISTORY OF CONSERVATION IN THE MISSOURI VALLEY
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<br />than related, they are twins, they are cause and effect, condi-
<br />tion and result. The use or abuse of natural resources is the
<br />rise and fall of nations, But, insists the reader, these are only
<br />general abstract statements, please be definite, how could the
<br />course of study be improved?
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<br />If we agree that Latin, as the backbone of all modern lan-
<br />guages, is necessary if the high school student plans to study
<br />for a profession or scientific work, we would make room in the
<br />high school course by moving some elementary Latin forward
<br />to the pre-adolescent age, the natural age for the child to ac-
<br />quire language. In the high school course belongs Elementary
<br />Ecology, a new phase of nature study. Briefly it is the rela-
<br />tionship between the living things, the soil and the atmosphere,
<br />not their names and data, but the way they live and their rela-
<br />tionship one to the other and to 'the soil and water in which
<br />they live, Biology and chemistry are closely related to con-
<br />servation, In short, conservation could be correlated from the
<br />first day in schooL For example, from the first the child with
<br />exception of yours and mine, is a little selfish ariimaL Does
<br />he not reach with both hands for everything in sight? But, dur-
<br />ing the first few days at school, he learns that there are other
<br />people who have rights. Nature has made him an extremely
<br />selfish individualist. Shall we continue to train him to grab
<br />while the grabbing is good? We place for his first writing lesson,
<br />"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." Why not instruct
<br />him from the beginning that two birds in the bush mean a nest,
<br />music, harmony and plenty for the morrow?
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<br />Just how much should the history of conservation cover?
<br />The central idea must of necessity be the conservation of the
<br />top soil. However, as already indicated, conservation is an ex-
<br />tremely complex problem and its ramifications are legion. Three
<br />illustrations will suffice to indicate and emphasize this fact. As
<br />we write this, the forest service has a large force of men with
<br />funds recently authorized by a co-operating national congress,
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